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Abta replaces 2020 Travel Convention with UK-based conference

Government
Tom Parry
9 April 2020

Abta has postponed its 2020 Travel Convention in Morocco and will instead host a UK-based conference later this year.

Abta's Mark Tanzer said travel firms were "running on empty" due to the lack of specific government support

The association had been due to hold its annual event in Marrakech in October, which will now be pushed back a year.

A UK-based industry seminar will be organised in its place this autumn.

Abta chief executive Mark Tanzer described the event as a combination of the Travel Convention and its Travel Matters conference (usually held in June), which would focus “particularly on issues and opportunities as the industry rebuilds from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic”.

More details will be “released in due course”, Abta said.